Ant-plant mutualism in Hawai'i? invasive ants reduce flower parasitism but also exploit floral nectar of the endemic shrub vaccinium reticulatum (Ericaceae)

Pacific Science

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 291-300

  Bleil, Richard ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^a   Junker, Robert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEE; BUD; CARBOHYDRATE; CATERPILLAR; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLOWER; FLOWER VISITING; FRUIT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOTH; MUTUALISM; NATIVE SPECIES; NECTAR; PARASITISM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY; SHRUB;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

APOIDEA; ERICACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HYLAEUS; LEPIDOPTERA; PTEROPHORIDAE; STENOPTILODES; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM RETICULATUM;

EID: 79960486829     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: 15346188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/65.3.291     Document Type: Article

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